Consolidated May-October 1815 with the 9th and 13th Infantry
(both constituted 11 January 1812), the 21st Infantry (constituted 26 June 1812),
the 40th Infantry (constituted 29 January 1813), and the 46th Infantry (constituted
30 March 1814) to form the 5th Infantry

Consolidated in June 1869 with one half of the 37th Infantry
(see ANNEX) and consolidated unit designated as the 5th Infantry

Assigned 27 July 1918 to the 17th Division

Relieved 10 February 1919 from assignment to the 17th Division

Assigned 24 March 1923 to the 9th Division

Relieved 15 August 1927 from assignment to the 9th Division
and assigned to the 5th Division

Relieved 1 October 1933 from assignment to the 5th Division
and assigned to the 9th Division

Relieved 15 July 1940 from assignment to the 9th Division

Assigned 10 July 1943 to the 71st Light Division (later redesignated
as the 71st Infantry Division)

Relieved 1 May 1946 from assignment to the 71st Infantry Division

Inactivated 15 November 1946 in Austria

Activated 1 January 1949 in Korea

Assigned 10 October 1954 to the 71st Infantry Division

Relieved 25 August 1956 from assignment to the 71st Infantry
Division

Assigned 1 September 1956 to the 8th Infantry Division

Relieved 1 August 1957 from assignment to the 8th Infantry
Division and reorganized as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental
System

Withdrawn 16 April 1987 from the Combat Arms Regimental System
and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 5th Infantry Regiment

ANNEX

Constituted 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 3d Battalion,
19th Infantry

Organized May 1865-September 1866 at Fort Wayne, Michigan;
Newport Barracks, Kentucky; and Fort Columbus, New York

Reorganized and redesignated 23 November 1866 as the 37th
Infantry

One half of the 37th Infantry consolidated in June 1869 with
the 5th Infantry and consolidated unit designated as the 5th Infantry (remaining
half of the 37th Infantry consolidated August-December 1869 with the 3d Infantry
and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Infantry - hereafter separate lineage)